to its former name, with the #Hiiu- modifier (#hargtäiend) appended in front. Quite enough done.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#NameChanges #Nimemuutused
#Military #Sõjaline
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#Hiiu-Suurtüki (Hiiu-Suurtükk)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Hiiu
#Hiiu #cannon. Big gun. Follow me on this one... For years, the street lived as blameless an existence a thoroughfare called ‘Cannon’ could live. Then came the annus mirabilis of Tallinn toponymy when, one warm 2nd July 1987, a wave of
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#Lootuse (Lootus)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Hiiu #Nõmme #Männiku #Rahumäe
#Hope, #expectation. Doesn’t quite have the same ring as #Micawberism, or the same meaning as ‘lotus’ (#lootos:lootose), but still. Part of a metaphysical street-name group. See #Aate.
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#Kadaka (Kadakas) #Asum
#Tallinn #Kristiine #Nõmme #Mustamäe #Pääsküla #VanaMustamäe #Hiiu #Kadaka #Lilleküla #Marja
#Juniper, name of 3 entities: a Sub-district built on an eponymous former manor house known as #Kaddak in the 18th C and belonging to #Haabersti (and the name of a village in
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#Põllu (Põld)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Nõmme #Hiiu #Kivimäe #Pääsküla
#Field, arable land (the #Polish for field is pole, from which #Poland also derives). This is a rather enigmatic word: #EES suggests a pre- or proto-germanic source, *pelto or *felþo-, which does indeed give rise to Mod. Ger. #Feld,
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if #Saaremaa was the home of #Saarepiiga, and if #Hiisi was related to #Hiiumaa (see #Hiiu), then a coalescence of the ur-legend into its current dramatis personae may have occurred some 800-odd years ago (very ‘odd’, please see big question mark hanging over this) around a then-powerful tribe
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#Hiiu-Rahu (Hiiu-Rahu)
#Historical #Ajalooline
Hiiu quiet / tranquility, calm, peace, truce. #SovietOccupation renaming (1987-1991) of #Rahu. Various other Rahu streets existed, so #Hiiu tacked on to differentiate.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Serva (Serv)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Nõmme #Hiiu
Rim, edge, border, also hem, selvage. Possibly referring to the edge of #PääskülaRaba along which it runs. Anagram of #Sarve.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Topography #Topograafia
#Geography #Geograafia
#Raudtee (Raudtee)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Rahumäe #Hiiu #Kivimäe #Pääsküla
Railway, lit. ‘iron road’. The railway being the Tallinn to #Paldiski/~#Turba line. The SW stretch of the road was renamed (2008) as #Ränduri and #Liipri.
#Railways #Raudteed
#Transport #Transport
#Communication #Kommunikatsioon
#Lühike [tänav] (Lühike)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Hiiu #Nõmme
Short. At 90 m, not sure it merits such shrift. Maybe in comparison to the Tallinn #Mägi-adjacent fantasies of Hiiu. Just a short (damn) walk from the Nõmme #RotiPere, or rat-family, sculpture. Go see. See also #LühikeJalg.
#Sihi (Siht)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Rahumäe #Nõmme #Hiiu #Kivimäe
Aim, objective, direction. Part of a mini game-name area. See #Kurni.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Sport #Spordid
#Game #Mäng
#Harku (Harku)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Nõmme #Hiiu
Small town SW of Tallinn, and Rural Municipality west of Tallinn in which direction, approximately, the street points.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Municipalities #Omavalitsused
#Haldja (Haldjas)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Hiiu
Guardian, spirit, genius, fairy, elf, pixie. Belonging to a #mythological zone which, paradoxically, exists, as does its double (tee not tänav) on #Naissaar, although it’s not part of Tallinn, but #Viimsi… See also #Ilmarise.
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
Old studded wooden door to Tallinn's Lühike Jalg. See previous image alt text.
its literal translation, I feel that ‘Long Rise’ better expresses its functional quality. But not its charming ‘olde-worlde’-ness. Anyhoo, given its two odd ‘legs’, Tallinn is sometimes jokingly referred to as the ‘lonkav linn’, totter town or lit. limping town. See also #LühikeTänav in #Hiiu.
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#Pidu (0)
Festival, feast, banquet, public celebration. Odd, the genitive of #pidu is #peo, and #Laulupeo (1923) corrected itself two years after initially naming itself #Laulupidu, and this was created in 1927...
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Hiiu
#Onomastics #Onomastika
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#Ugala (Ugala)
One-time province of south-eastern #Estonia, otherwise known as #Ugandi, #Ugania, #Ungannia or, most accurately, #Ugaunia, encompassing the present-day counties of #Tartu, #Põlva, #Võru and #Valga.
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Hiiu #Kivimäe
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#Tähetorni (Tähetorn)
Observatory (lit. star tower). After the Tallinn Observatory, former watch tower on the #Glehni N.v. estate. Tallinn’s previous observatory, the cupola of which can still, apparently, be seen, was at #Estonia 15.
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Haabersti #Hiiu #VanaMustamäe #Mäeküla
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#Taara (Taara)
Supreme but possibly pseudo-mythological god in #Estonian #folklore (often suggested as related to the #Norse god #Thor, [coincidental chicken-egg here: #Sanskrit तारा, tāra, means ‘star’, and
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Kivimäe #Hiiu
#MythsAndLegends #MüüdidJaLegendid
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#Vääna (Vääna):
Various explanations for this… It may be named after a nearby manor, thought to have originally been a fortress, and later (1306/1325?) a poolmõis (see Mõisa) belonging to Padise monastery.
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Hiiu
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Unexplained #Seletamatu
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#Pargi (Park)
Park, next to #Sanatooriumi. Street crossing #Põllu!
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Hiiu
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#Valve (Valve)
Watch, lookout, surveillance, duty. Named for the local level-crossing watch. Also, slightly dated woman’s name meaning white, bright or brilliant.
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Kivimäe #Hiiu
#Railways #Raudteed
#Vahtra (Vaher)
Maple, harilik vaher, sometimes known as #pikaninapuu (long nose tree), #NorwayMaple, Acer platanoides.
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Hiiu
#Trees #Puud
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Onomastics #Onomastika
#Odonymy #Odonüümia
#Salve (Salv)
Bin, hopper. Street named after a one-time nearby silo.
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Hiiu
#Onomastics #Onomastika
#Lõvi (Lõvi)
Lion, symbol of local #Pioneeride battalion.
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Hiiu
#SovietTimes #Nõukogudeaeg
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